Sahidic Coptic Old Testament

In the days of our kings, the princes began to be inflamed with wine: he stretched out his hand with pestilent fellows.

Therefore have I mown down your prophets; I have slain them with the word of my mouth: and my judgment shall go forth as the light.

And thou shalt measure outside the city on the east side two thousand cubits, and on the south side two thousand cubits, and on the west side two thousand cubits, and on the north side two thousand cubits; and your city shall be in the midst of this, and the suburbs of the cities as described.

And the king said to her, What is the matter with thee? And she said, I am indeed a widow woman, and my husband is dead.

And the sons of the prophets who were in Jericho drew near to Elisaie, and said to him, Dost thou know that the Lord is about to take away thy master to-day from thy head? And he said, Yea, I know it; hold your peace.

And the Lord said to me, Thou hast well seen: for I have watched over my words to perform them.

The Lord shall keep thee: the Lord is thy shelter upon thy right hand.

He has calmed the sea with his might, and by his wisdom the whale has been overthrown.

For the living will know that they shall die: but the dead know nothing, and there is no longer any reward to them; for their memory is lost.

How long, O Lord? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire?

Hear the words of the Lord, ye that tremble at his word; speak ye, our brethren, to them that hate you and abominate you, that the name of the Lord may be glorified, and may appear their joy; but they shall be ashamed.

Symeon and Levi, brethren, accomplished the injustice of their cutting off.

And if ye will sacrifice a peace-offering to the Lord, ye shall offer it acceptable from yourselves.

If he gives an order to the moon, then it shines not; and the stars are not pure before him.

And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy mind, and with all thy soul, and all thy strength.

I have hated the assembly of wicked doers; and will not sit with ungodly men.

And the priests the Levites shall come, because the Lord God has chosen them to stand by him, and to bless in his name, and by their word shall every controversy and every stroke be decided.

Therefore they shall fall by day, and the prophet with thee shall fall: I have compared thy mother unto night.

and the upper part of their shoes and their sandals old and clouted on their feet, and their garments old upon themand the bread of their provision was dry and mouldy and corrupt.

And afterward shall the children of Israel return, and shall seek the Lord their God, and David their king; and shall be amazed at the Lord and at his goodness in the latter days.

who say, Depart from me, draw not nigh to me, for I am pure. This is the smoke of my wrath, a fire burns with it continually.

He that keeps the commandment shall not know an evil thing: and the heart of the wise knows the time of judgment.

They have a mouth, but they cannot speak; they have eyes, but they cannot see:

And the pride of Israel shall be brought low before his face; and Israel and Ephraim shall fall in their iniquities; and Judas also shall fall with them.

So ye shall keep all my ordinances, and all my judgments, and do them; which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the Lord your God.

And I will recompense on her the days of Baalim, wherein she sacrificed to them, and put on her ear-rings, and her necklaces, and went after her lovers, and forgot me, saith the Lord.

For these blessings shall happen to them that work righteousness, and they shall remember thy ways: behold, thou wast angry and we have sinned; therefore we have erred,

All mine enemies set a watch against me: I was troubled, and spoke not.

And David said to Anchus, If now thy servant has found grace in thine eyes, let them give me, I pray thee, a place in one of the cities in the country, and I will dwell there: for why does thy servant dwell with thee in a royal city?

Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art God my Saviour: and I have waited on thee all the day.

And I Daniel only saw the vision: and the men that were with me saw not the vision; but a great amazement fell upon them, and they fled in fear.

And he raised up a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, to make it known to their children:

Now then thy two sons, who were born to thee in the land of Egypt, before I came to thee into Egypt, are mine; Ephraim and Manasse, as Ruben and Symeon they shall be mine.

Will God's anger continue for ever, or be preserved to the end? Behold, thou hast spoken and done these bad things, and hadst power to do them.

And when the days of the banquet were completed, Job sent and purified them, having risen up in the morning, and offered sacrifices for them, according to their number, and one calf for a sin-offering for their souls: for Job said, Lest peradventure my sons have thought evil in their minds against God. Thus, then Job did continually.

That the children of Israel may offer their sacrifices, all that they shall slay in the fields, and bring them to the Lord unto the doors of the tabernacle of witness to the priest, and they shall sacrifice them as a peace-offering to the Lord.

And Booz said, In the day of thy buying the field of the hand of Noemin and of Ruth the Moabitess the wife of the deceased, thou must also buy her, so as to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance.

And they called out Lot, and said to him, Where are the men that went in to thee this night? bring them out to us that we may be with them.

And Samuel said to the people, The Lord is witness among you, and his anointed is witness this day, that ye have not found anything in my hand: and they said, He is witness.

And as for the one that was broken, in whose place there stood up four horns, four kings shall arise out of his nation, but not in their own strength.

Thou dost wonderfully shine forth from the everlasting mountains.

Moreover he has not seen the sun, nor known rest: there is no more rest to this one than another.

And they have departed like asses in the field, having gone forth on my account according to their own order: his bread is sweet to his little ones.

And I looked, and there was no helper; and I observed, and none upheld: therefore my arm delivered them, and mine anger drew nigh.

And Sedekias son of Chanaan made for himself iron horns, and said, Thus saith the Lord, With these thou shalt push Syria, until it be consumed.

And as a young man lives with a virgin, so shall thy sons dwell in thee: and it shall come to pass that as a bridegroom will rejoice over a bride, so will the Lord rejoice over thee.

Behold, the land of Egypt is before thee; settle thy father and thy brethren in the best land.

And, behold, a second beast like a bear, and it supported itself on one side, and there were three ribs in its mouth, between its teeth: and thus they said to it, Arise, devour much flesh.

And he shall take of the congregation of the children of Israel two kids of the goats for a sin-offering, and one lamb for a whole-burnt-offering.

And the servant said to him, Shall I carry back thy son to the land whence thou camest forth, if haply the woman should not be willing to return with me to this land?

But in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose in one of your cities to name his name there, and to be called upon, ye shall even seek him out and go thither.

And Jonadab said to him, Lie upon thy bed, and make thyself sick, and thy father shall come in to see thee; and thou shalt say to him, Let, I pray thee, Themar my sister come, and feed me with morsels, and let her prepare food before my eyes, that I may see and eat at her hands.

And in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the heads of the mountains were seen.

Suffer not thy mouth to lead thy flesh to sin; and say not in the presence of God, It was an error: lest God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the works of thy hands.

And the governors said, We shall not find occasion against Daniel, except in the ordinances of his God.

And strangers shall come and feed thy flocks, and aliens shall be thy ploughmen and vine-dressers.

for behold, thou art with child, and shalt bring forth a son; and there shall come no razor upon his head, for the child shall be a Nazarite to God from the womb; and he shall begin to save Israel from the hand of the Phylistines.

He shall receive a blessing from the Lord, and mercy from God his Saviour.

Then Azarias stood up, and prayed on this manner; and opening his mouth in the midst of the fire said,

And the man who shall touch his bed, shall wash his garments, and bathe himself in water, and shall be unclean till evening.

And the Lord thy God shall bring thee in from thence into the land which thy fathers have inherited, and thou shalt inherit it; and he will do thee good, and multiply thee above thy fathers.

Thou has prepared a table before me in presence of them that afflict me: thou hast thoroughly anointed my head with oil; and thy cup cheers me like the best wine.

They have hatched asps' eggs, and weave a spider's web: and he that is going to eat of their eggs, having crushed an addled egg, has found also in it a basilisk.

I said unto the transgressors, Do not transgress; and to the sinners, Lift not up the horn.

Who is as the Lord our God? who dwells in the high places,

a time to throw stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to abstain from embracing;

And the priest shall give direction, and they shall kill one bird over an earthen vessel over running water.

And Jacob rose up from the well of the oath; and the sons of Israel took up their father, and the baggage, and their wives on the waggons, which Joseph sent to take them.

Then shalt thou see, and fear, and be amazed in thine heart; for the wealth of the sea shall come round to thee, and of nations and peoples; and herds of camels shall come to thee,

And Daniel purposed in his heart, that he would not defile himself with the king's table, nor with the wine of his drink: and he intreated the chief of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.

What ailed thee, O sea, that thou fleddest? and thou Jordan, that thou wast turned back?

And if brethren should live together, and one of them should die, and should not have seed, the wife of the deceased shall not marry out of the family to a man not related: her husband's brother shall go in to her, and shall take her to himself for a wife, and shall dwell with her.

And the children of Israel dwelt in the midst of the Chananite, and the Chettite, and the Amorite, and the Pherezite, and the Evite, and the Jebusite.

I have not chosen this fast, nor such a day for a man to afflict his soul; neither though thou shouldest bend down thy neck as a ring, and spread under thee sackcloth and ashes, neither thus shall ye call a fast acceptable.

And from the borders of Manasse, from the eastern parts as far as the west coasts, for Ephraim, one.

And the sons of Chet answered to Abraam, saying, Not so, Sir,

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

And it came to pass on the morrow that an evil spirit from God fell upon Saul, and he prophesied in the midst of his house. And David was playing on the harp with his hand, according to his daily custom. And Sauls spear was in his hand.

but when the gate was shut in the evening, the men went out; I know not whither they are gone: follow after them, if ye may overtake them.

and again he measured a thousand; and he could not pass through: for the water rose as of a torrent which men cannot pass over.

The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.

ignorantly as it were in the entrance above;

thou shalt not have power to sacrifice the passover in any of the cities, which the Lord thy God gives thee.

O that my ways were directed to keep thine ordinances.

And their lot fell to them from Anassa, and to the plain of Labec of the land of Galaad, which is beyond Jordan.

The fool folds his hands together, and eats his own flesh.

we have done iniquity, we have transgressed, and we have departed and turned aside from thy commandments and from thy judgments:

I made me gardens and orchards, and planted in them every kind of fruit-tree.

For this second year there is famine on the earth, and there are yet five years remaining, in which there is to be neither ploughing, nor mowing.

and a freewill-offering, a meat-offering for the ram, and a meat-offering for the lambs, the gift of his hand, and a hin of oil for the meat-offering.

And the sun arises, and the sun goes down and draws toward its place;

and the priest shall look on the spot the seventh day; and, behold, if the spot remains before him, if the spot has not spread in the skin, then the priest shall separate him the second time seven days.

And David arose secretly, and goes into the place where Saul was sleeping, and there was Abenner the son of Ner, the captain of his host: and Saul was sleeping in a chariot, and the people had encamped along round about him.

And he shall continue as long as the sun, and before the moon for ever.

who call upon idols under the leafy trees, slaying your children in the valleys among the rocks?

I will give to them in my house and within my walls an honourable place, better than sons and daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, and it shall not fail.

the length shall be twenty-five thousand, and the breadth twenty thousand: and the Levites that attend the house, they shall have cities to dwell in for a possession.

But if she should have born a female child, then she shall be unclean twice seven days, according to the time of her monthly courses; and for sixty-six days shall she remain in her unclean blood.